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Your energy is your power. When your energy is gathered, like drops of water in a river, its power is amplified. You choose to give your energy to the people you love, the causes you support, the work that allows you to live. And at times you may find yourself feeling unfocused or drained.

Imbalances of energy exchange are energy leaks. They occur when you work or live with an energy vampire. When you are helping ground someone who is ungrounded. When you have been programmed to believe that your power is too much. When you chronically give more than you receive. When you are raised to not have permission to say no.

If you are dealing with someone who always wants more from you. They don’t know how to regenerate their own energy so they hook into the energy of others. At work this could be a manager that sets unreasonable deadlines, creates destabilizing drama or micro-managing busywork. At home this may be a family member who always has demands, is angry or interrupts what you are doing to make you focus on their agenda. They may play victim or use guilt to hook you and use your energy.

“Energy is the driving force for the universe… One form of energy can be transferred to another form.” Scientific Principles

This science is true for human energy as well as energy held in the earth elements. You have the opportunity to focus the transfer of your energy in a way that is fulfilling by shoring up your energy leaks. As you become conscious of how your energy is being used you can stop the leaks and create more balanced energy exchanges.

The most effective way to stop energy leaks is regularly practicing Active Meditation (more info). In this practice you visualize your energy field (aura), reset your chakras, create a new grounding cord and call your energy back to yourself (video example). Defining what is you and what is not you, energetically through this process, is key to dissolving the hooks from energy vampires too. When you own all of your energy, by being aware of how you are sharing it in the world, it is harder for people to take it from you without your agreement.

Your energy is your power. It took you a lifetime to develop how you share your energy, so be patient with the time it takes to break the habits that lead to energy leaks. Each energy leak you stop gives you more focus and fulfillment in your life.

The feeling of scarcity hooks us with a belief that there’s not enough, time, energy or resources to do what needs to be done. We feel behind. If we crank up our adrenaline to meet the demand, later we feel depleted, because we forced our actions into an agenda that was unnatural. We give too much to work or a relationship, failing to care for our self. Inner-peace is impossible when we believe that there is not enough time or energy. In this mindset we are harried with constant striving to fit as much as we possibly can into every day.

The lie is that there is a limited supply of what we need to feel at peace… time, energy, support, tools, love. We have all the energy we need as long as we take care of our self with: good sleep, healthy food, exercise and meditation. When we get hooked by scarcity thinking our entire experience is thrown off balance. We lose our ability to set good boundaries with a relationship or job because our attention is focused on the lack, the energetic hook that there is a need much greater than we can fulfill; a vacuum of energy that tugs on our belly (third chakra), a magnetic force pulling us to give more and more.

There are two practices that help us reclaim our sense of having enough time and energy. The first is maintaining our grounding. When we’re grounded in our own energy, we can recognize the outside demand. From a centered place, we are empowered to choose how much to contribute of our life-force. We have the clarity that we’re not responsible to rescue the situation. We see our self as a contributor and know that doing our part is enough. And we succeed in our part, regardless of what the experience is for anyone else.

A mediation tool for grounding starts with visualization of a line of energy connecting the tip of our tailbone (first chakra) to the center of the earth. That grounding cord can be seen as a waterfall, tree trunk, animal tail, or beam of light; whatever feels solid for you. Intend that the only energy in that grounding cord is your energy and kick out anyone else who is hitchhiking in your grounding space.

The second practice is to shift the energy just above your belly button (third chakra) to neutrality. That place where you get gut feelings that signal something is amiss. The solar plexus is where we hold our personal power, thus where demand energy hooks into our space. It is where we feel anxiety for not having enough time that drains our energy. Visualize the space in your belly as a crystal ball full of only your energy. Notice that it is neutral, clear or see-through. Because it’s clear as glass, when others try to tap into your energy with demands, there’s nothing for them to attach to. Neutrality allows you respond to others needs without over giving.

Staying centered in our power rather than allowing the demands in our environment to pull us out of alignment requires practice. Choosing to believe that there is plenty of time and energy is essential if we strive to create a consistent experience of inner-peace. By eliminating the hook of scarcity energy we can be inspired by our work, relationships, environment, home and options. We can to show-up for all of it with an authentic belief that the best possible outcome is happening and we don’t need to know what that is or how it’s going to happen. We trust it is.

*Note: Reflections inspired by the book called Sacred Economics. It makes the point that our monetary system is based on scarcity, the manmade belief in limited supply of money.

Some people fuel their life by tapping into the energy of others. The most skilled energy consumers find a way to hook into us and keep us hanging. Part of their pattern is use of a compelling promise that goes unfulfilled. It is sticky to keep us from detaching from them. This type of draining relationship connection feeds on our deepest desires, making it particularly hard to reclaim our power.

We may notice the relationship has us waiting on a future return but subconsciously feel there’s a payoff in it for us, the fulfillment of something we need. Our desire may be the love they offer, the purpose we feel from helping them, a sense of being valued, or the influence we may gain from connection to their projected power. I call this the hook and retreat energy dynamic.

This friend, lover or family member frequently says or insinuates the value of staying connected to them is in a future promise. “When I do ______, you’re going to get ______.” When I make a lot of money, when I become famous, when I get a divorce, when I get promoted, when I die, when I finish whatever I am doing that requires me to ask you for more energy than I give you in return. Unfortunately the time of rebalancing rarely comes. The energy consumer hasn’t figured out how to generate their own power so they seek it in outside sources. If they do finally achieve a goal, there’s no lasting payout for us because their target changes to a future date.

We all have been on both sides of energy exchange; no one is immune to moments of giving or taking out-of-balance. But when we experience hook and retreat, our body will let us know through a sensation of tightness or queasiness in our belly. This is the location of our third chakra, where we activate our personal power. The body notices that our power is being redirected. The result is less energy for our own creations and a sense of being off-balance.

The hook and retreat relationship has moments that make us feel crazy. The words, actions and energy of the energy consumer are questionable enough to evoke a sense of uncertainty. Our intuition is trying to make us aware of the deception. The energy consumer always believes their own story so they don’t realize they are being deceptive. The imbalance created from the cord into our core makes it hard to see clearly and remove ourselves or renegotiate the relationship.

Here are a couple of tools you can practice to reclaim your power when you have been hooked:

Clean out your 3rd chakra. Visualize a gold rose and see it mopping out that belly area front to back, soaking up all the energy that is not yours in that space. Imagine the rose flying somewhere far away and dissipating. Call your energy back to you from any person you’ve given your power away to and fill the empty space with your own vibration.

Visualize a Protection Rose in the space between you and this person. The intention of the rose is to filter out any attempts to attach to your energy.

The stealth aspect of this behavioral pattern is how it taps into our subconscious desire. We are seduced by a subversive agenda. The truth that we are never going to get the need met is hard to see. It feels possible and it feels strong. By reclaiming our energy space we have the opportunity to see the relationship more clearly and gain energy to use for our own creations.

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